Imus canned by MSNBC

[Dan Strassberg]

Bill: When you decide to rejoin the Human Race, please send us a message. In
the meantime, live in your fantasy world, if that's what makes you happy.
You clearly have been "liberated" from reality. If you ever come up with a
solution to the problem based on the behavior of real people in the real
world, it might be interesting to hear it. But it is pure folly to say that
people simply must behave differently from here on out without even hinting
at how you would try to induce them to do so. Moreover, trying to get people
to change their behavior is a far cry from actually getting them to behave
differently. I find it almost impossible to believe that you could seriously
propose what you have suggested. I never thought of you as particiularly
naive, but if you are serious, you are incredibly--and rather
pathetically--naive.

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Dan Strassberg
dan.strassberg@att.net
Fax: 1-707-215-6367

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill O'Neill" <me@billoneill.us>
To: "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@csail.mit.edu>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.BostonRadio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Imus canned by MSNBC


> Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > Bill,
> >
> > If you were intending to respond to Dan's statement, could you please
> > rephrase your response in a way that actually responds to it?  I'm
> > having trouble making a connection between what Dan said (and you
> > quoted) and what you said.
> >
>
>
> >>Dan Strassberg wrote:
>
> ...some things that a member of a minority group can say
> with impunity about other members of that group create a firestorm when
> someone who is not a member of that group says them...<<
>
> Take two.
>
> While I agree that this has been the case for generations, I believe that
the time has come for all ethnic constituencies to take a concerted leap
forward and to lead by example.  No further passes or excuses based upon
ethnic membership.
>
> Bill O'Neill
>
>